I think your viewpoint is perfectly rational and healthy. Be very skeptical but willing to let others do their thing and possibly build something that can prove their worth to you over time, or not.

The outright hatred, attempting to ban, and not even being open to potential use cases (especially if it's not directly useful to them, then it therefore must be useless to all people) that's present in so many people's comments on here gets very tiring.

I expect the hatred from other sites, but here is supposed to be about showing off or discussing the potential for new and weird and possibly not yet proven tech, or at least it seemed that way for just about everything other than crypto on here.

The number of software projects I've been hired to work on in the corporate and startup world that ended up getting completely scrapped before release or failed to get traction once released and then quietly died within six months -- resulting in me feeling like my company wasted a lot of time and other people's money -- is probably more of my professional career than not at this point. But if the crypto world has any of that, it's therefore useless and evil and must be eliminated.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember a while after the Web2 craze, the Web was incrementing several times a year, at least.

Because my Web goes to 11!

Did I miss something, or hasn't the rest of the World Wide Web already moved far far beyond Web3, a long long time ago?

Am I misunderstanding it, or is "Web3" meant to sound charmingly retro, with that "Internet Explorer 3" ring to it?

What's the Web3 crowd going to re-invent next: XMLCoins, in ActiveX wallets, powered by Server Push, decorated with Under Construction animated GIF NFTs?

Never be sure about any technology not being disrupted. I laughed at the idea of web-based calendaring in 1998, and look where we are today. Good thing paper calendars still exist.

Personally, I am perfectly fine with my still-existing Web 1.0